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...find a piece of the true cross in every old church I go into, and some of the nails that held it together." The Sea of Galilee was "this puddle," and no match for Lake Tahoe. Of the Hellespont, Twain wrote: "I don't think much of Leander, now, who swam the Hellespont to see his squaw ... I could swim that creek with all my property on my back...
...military moon base from which a handful of earthlings dominate their native planet-or perhaps watch with despair its radioactive devastation by nuclear war-is a familiar staple of science fiction. But the moon base will not be fiction for long, says Air Force Lieut. General Donald L. (for Leander) Putt. Last week in Washington he told the House Armed Services Committee how the U.S. Air Force plans to become the U.S. Space Force and eventually occupy the moon...
Zanies. The book is also a remarkably delicate story of the ups and downs in the lives of Leander's two sons, who find that their gentle mother and vigorous father have not exactly prepared them for the world beyond St. Botolphs. Lastly, it is a book peppered with ribald good humor and peopled by some absurd zanies...
There is Cousin Honora, a whimsical skinflint who counts out the pennies to Leander's family and moves with haughty assurance from painting to the piano to whatnot, casually giving them up in turn and winding up in her old age as a Red Sox fan. But not even Honora can stay in the same league with old Cousin Justina, who is richer still (she married a five-and-dime prince) and dominates the lives of a little circle of pathetic hangers-on who are dependent upon her charity. When she discovers that Leander's son Moses...
Advice. The book does not depend on its gamey moments and archaic oddballs for its best effects. Essentially it is a victory of writing, each sentence surely pointed toward its purpose. Author Cheevers rueful love of his characters touches every page of the book. But perhaps he liked Leander best, Leander who left this "Advice to my sons'" in a copy of Shakespeare...